riddles delay us (I think) when
we don't want to go
where we know we're headed ...
give us time to find
another path
to find
a change of course ...

and when you are a James-person who,
in his essence, never wants to
"go brutal"
you go from astray to
somewhere else to found or
lost and looking

Edward Albee said in a play early when he was very young,
"Sometimes it is necessary to go a great distance out of your way
in order to come back a short distance, correctly." (The Zoo Story)

this has always made sense to me, although
I can't explain it
can't explain me neither

love you, James
Roadie